Japan: Thoughts on the Tachikawa flier case

Posted 16 April 2008 2:30 GMT

Countries	Japan
Topics	Ideas, Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Law, Politics
Languages	Japanese, English

Japan

Japanese blogger Dr-Seton describes an urban legend [ja] about children in public housing who were kept inside, only allowed out to play in a small park. When one day the children were let free outside, rather than run around, they stuck to a very small space. He uses this story to discuss the issue of private and public space in the Tachikawa Flier case, in which three Japanese anti-war activists were arrested for distributing fliers in the Tachikawa army barracks. The Japanese Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by the three activists on April 11th.

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